VALUELESS CHEQUES
MIDDLE AGED COUPLE INVOLVED ißy Telegraph—Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Fob. 10. A middle-aged couple, the man’s name being either McNally or McMahon, were arrested in Gore yesterday and brought to Invercargill to answer charges of obtaining goods and money by means of valueless cheques, it is understood that the couple reside in either Dunedin or Kaitangata, and that they waited upon Invercargill people on Friday, ostensibly to get some cheap money and goods. Their schemes failed, business men who accepted cheques (on a Dunedin bank) becoming suspicious and wasting no time in discovering there was a fraud. Cheques in all totalling £650 were issued, involving the purchase of a piano, a gramophone, £2OO worth of furniture, and a deposit on a house. A prominent land agent was first gulled, and lie was so. convinced of the sincerity and wealthiness of the pair that he sponsored them around the town, enabling them to purchase goods and to cash cheques to their hearts’ delight. They departed for Dunedin by the first train yesterday, but were apprehended at Gore, and will apixmr at the Court to-morrow morning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1929, Page 6
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186VALUELESS CHEQUES Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1929, Page 6
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